Imagine you\u2019re a fan of a football team involved in a heated matchup with its greatest rival. Last year your guys won the championship, but now it\u2019s the two-minute warning, your guys are down by four, and they just fumbled.<\/p>\n
Wait. You think that\u2019s bad? You have no idea how bad things are. Since the first quarter, the team that\u2019s whupping your ass with two minutes to play, the one that was in the basement last year, has been playing their FIFTH STRING QUARTERBACK. That\u2019s right; their FIRST FOUR GUYS WENT DOWN IN THE FIRST QUARTER.<\/p>\n
How embarrassing is that? Most teams don\u2019t even HAVE a fifth-string quarterback. By that point the coach is asking some defensive back, \u201cHey, Grubnik, you played behind center in high school, right? How many plays you remember?\u201d<\/p>\n
Sen. Harry Reid, the most powerful legislator in Washington — though his role as facilitator of the Obama-Pelosi-Schumer socialist agenda has not exactly won him any popularity contests back here in sagebrush country — didn\u2019t want to have to face then-Republican Attorney General Brian Sandoval in his re-election bid this year, so he appointed attorney Sandoval to a lifetime seat on the federal bench in 2005.<\/p>\n
Sandoval came back, quitting the bench last year. But the senior Reid dodged the first bullet: Judge Sandoval opted to unseat an awkward governor of his own party, Jim Gibbons, and is now laying his own 16-point whupping on a younger Reid, Harry\u2019s son Rory, in Nevada\u2019s gubernatorial general election.<\/p>\n
The next likely challenger was reasonably popular Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki. So Democratic state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, daughter of longtime Las Vegas Convention Czar Manny Cortez and always a willing Democratic foot-soldier, indicted Krolicki, alleging he mishandled funds while he served as state treasurer.<\/p>\n
The criminal prosecution was so baseless it was thrown out of court on a motion to dismiss — which hardly ever happens. But by then it was too late for Krolicki to start fund-raising to challenge Sen. Reid this year. Two down.<\/p>\n
The other member of the GOP \u201ctop three\u201d potential Reid challengers was articulate and debonair Northern Nevada Congressman Dean Heller. Someone else will have to explain why he demurred, though he\u2019s young and may figure the smaller-government tidal wave will only grow stronger as \u201cmulticultural\u201d socialism along with its various economic and environmental frauds continue to crash and burn, world-wide.<\/p>\n
The GOP fourth choice? Attractive and wealthy former state Sen. Sue Lowden was considered the front-runner last spring. Though she\u2019s no policy wonk, there\u2019s little to dislike about Ms. Lowden. Yes, she and her husband own casinos, but this is Nevada. She was a reasonably articulate conservative during her brief tenure in Carson City, until the public employee unions loaded up and took her out with their usual scurrilous lies — her vote to let parents decide which shots their kids should get meant she was \u201cin favor of childhood disease\u201d; thoughtful stuff like that.<\/p>\n
So Harry loaded up against former USO girl and local TV newsgal Sue Lowden in this spring\u2019s GOP primary, and … got his wish! Lowden lost! Harry got to run against the GOP\u2019s FIFTH STRINGER, surging-out-of nowhere former State Assemblywoman and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle!<\/p>\n
Who turned out in their only televised debate to be sharper than Harry, more attractive and likeable than Harry, who was already beating Harry by three points before he made a fool of himself on TV rambling about NFL players wearing pink helmets, and who now has him down by four, as (now \u201cformer\u201d) $50,000-a-year Reid \u201cPress Sectetary for Hispanic Media\u201d Diana Tejada chose the week before election day to get herself fired for taking money to enter into a sham marriage in order to provide an illegal alien from Fatwah-land with American citizenship. (The Lebanese man was deported. Cuiriously, the Reid staffer faced no charges.)<\/p>\n
Did I mention Sen. Reid favors amnesty for illegal aliens, a position about as popular in Nevada as an 8 p.m. curfew?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t care who wins Tuesday — though it looks like Angle from where I\u2019m sitting, barring massive fraud. The Democrats have a huge problem, and it\u2019s called the SEIU, AFSCME, and most of all Barack Obama and his big-spending, big-borrowing, business-hating socialist agenda, which has single-handedly dumped us on the verge of the Second Great Depression.<\/p>\n
(Wait till you see what happens when the dollar collapses.)<\/p>\n
Yes, Demorats will retain plenty of safe, gerrymandered seats. But on Tuesday night, the map of America\u2019s contested elections is going to look mighty red, with islands of blue in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; in California, Oregon, and Hawaii.<\/p>\n
(And if you think Democrats have good tax and economic policies, please move to one of those \u201cthriving\u201d states immediately … and try to open a business.)<\/p>\n
Democrats\u2019 best hope is to at least hold Patty Murray\u2019s seat in Washington — if she can stay close, Democratic lawyers and judges will steal it back for her.<\/p>\n
The big question now is whether the \u201cmoderate\u201d RINOS will be able to take these new Tea Party freshmen aside, come January, and explain, \u201cYou have to understand how things work. If you don\u2019t want to be a one-term wonder, you have to bring home the pork. And the way to get YOUR earmarks approved is to agree to vote for everybody ELSE\u2019S earmarks …\u201d<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the real irony. That might have worked with Brian Sandoval or Brian Krolicki. But it won\u2019t work with Sharron Angle. She BELIEVES in sharply limited government.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo ahead, commit political suicide. Nominate \u2018principled\u2019 Tea Party conservatives who won\u2019t compromise,\u201d the Democrats dared the GOP last spring. \u201cNyah nyah nyah.\u201d<\/p>\n
So what are they going to say now, as the map runs red Tuesday night? \u201cThey don\u2019t have a mandate to do anything radical\u201d?<\/p>\n
They do. And the people who gave them that mandate were hysterical, fear-mongering Harry Reid and his Democrats, warning one and all \u201cThey believe in the U.S. Constitution. Disallows most of what we\u2019ve been doing for years. Pretty scary. Pretty extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n
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